A famous photo, but worth seeing again.
Just in case anyone uses Yahoo, which is truly crap search engine anyway (Google will generally give you more relevant results) - well, you might consider boycotting Y!
Last year they gave information to the Chinese government which helped to put political dissident Shi Tao in prison - and some […]
I have just his evening watched Grizzly Man, by Werner Herzog, and I would like to make a few notes on it.
Firstly, I don’t remember ever enjoying a film as much. Bold statement as this may seem, this could well be my favourite film above all others. I recommend that it should be watched by […]
I had been thinking how London is not really English at all, BUT…
It has been snowing lightly today - a slushy, non-committal snow which seems quintessentially English
AND… I have started taking “dinner” at mid-day; leaving work for an hour and eating a main meal, then only having “supper” in the evenings. This also makes me […]
London is:
- uncontrollably crowded
- overrun by the human race
- contains an internal rhyme
- popular with tourists and mercenaries alike
- post-national
- home to many seedy types
Why do I not hate this place as I used to? In point form, I find it hard to identify London’s good aspects. True, it has outstanding art galleries - […]
To me, the right to dance like a gibbon is more important than the right to free speech.
I live with rich people. I started to notice this in the interview for the room, when Eleni told me that she only works casually, a few hours a week. But all the evidence pointed to her needing at least 100pounds a week for her rent, even before other expenses. So, a woman of means, […]
I am guessing that one of the biggest topics in the blogosphere at the moment must be the Mohammed cartoons. They are certainly the hot topic in newspaper editorials over here, anyway. For what it’s worth (nothing?), I would like to register my opinion.
At first, I thought, ’stupid bloody Danes… French… oh everyone in Europe […]
Job offer retracted. No real explanation.
Bah.
It seems I got the job. Actually, they were a bit unspecific, saying they will ring me next week to talk about money, and when they want me to start. But apparently they want me to work for them.
In fact, within a matter of hours, I have got myself sorted with both job and house. […]
I just secured my first genuinely interesting job interview.
REALLY interesting… young company, unconventional, doing creative things and making a success of it. And they want to talk to me tomorrow morning!!!!!!
Up until then I was having a pretty dull day. Interview this morning with crappy boring corporate publisher, somewhere in a boring ugly […]